Legacy Blue Ticks on Twitter, Elon Musk has a new pay-up-or-lose-it deadline for you... April 20

First, it was April 1 (guess, we were all fooled!), and now it is April 20, the day legacy blue ticks on Twitter will be removed. Twitter users will now have to pay the company $8 and/or $11 per month to get the once-coveted blue verified checks. 

For organisations, the fee starts at $1,000 per month and they have to pay an additional fee to have their associates verified and linked to the organisation. 

Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

Context 

• On April 1, most legacy verified Twitter users woke up to find their blue ticks intact and asked whether the deadline was a joke. Turns out it was not, but it looked like Twitter found out that removing blue ticks is easier said than done. 
• Twitter did one thing though -- it made it impossible to see whether a verified handle was legacy blue verified or Twitter Blue subscribed, by changing the description.

Now what?

• All the legacy verified accounts on Twitter will lose their blue ticks if they do not subscribe to Twitter Blue by April 20. 
• This includes organisations. Already, media outlets such as the New York Times have made it clear that they will not be subscribing to Twitter Blue. 
• Musk responded by removing the NYT Twitter handle's blue check mark. 
• In the latest, American non-profit media organisation NPR announced that they are quitting Twitter after the social network labelled them "state-affiliated media".

NPR literally says Federal funding is *essential* on their website right now at https://t.co/QA8TUZxmNO

What have you got against the truth @NPR? pic.twitter.com/3W0X0MsZYW

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2023

• PBS joined NPR in its Twitter exit as well. So far, these are the first major news organisations to have quit Twitter.  
• Legacy blue ticks are being removed gradually from Twitter. Among celebrities, Doja Cat lost her blue tick. And when a fan told her that "it's over" for her, the American singer replied saying, "Only fans have blue ticks."
• Twitter Verified has also unfollowed all accounts on Twitter. 
• Elon Musk has been vocal about Twitter's legacy verification process before taking over the company. He's of the opinion that it created a "lords vs peasants" system. 

Verified Organizations is a new way for organizations and their affiliates to distinguish themselves on Twitter. Rather than relying on Twitter to be the sole arbiter of truth for which accounts should be verified, vetted organizations that sign up for https://t.co/1v6wSVKfDb…

— Twitter Verified (@verified) March 31, 2023

On the other hand, reports revealed that Twitter is no longer a company. It has now been merged with Elon Musk's futuristic company X Corp.